No criminal
case had a more
far-reaching effects on modern American politics than the Alger
Hiss-Whittaker
Chambers spy case. The case catapulted an obscure California
congressman
named Richard Nixon to national fame, set the stage for Senator Joseph
McCarthy's notorious Communist-hunting, and marked the beginning of a
conservative
intellectual and political movement that would one day put Ronald
Reagan
in the White House.[CONTINUED]